Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence in a Sample of Arrestees in Sacramento, California, 1999 (ICPSR 4577)

Citation

Barnes, Carole, and Taylor, Bruce G. Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence in a Sample of Arrestees in Sacramento, California, 1999. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-06-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04577.v1

Summary

This study served as the pilot study for the domestic violence addendum to the National Institute of Justice's Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program. The domestic violence addendum was administered during the third (Part 1) and fourth (Part 2) quarters of 1999 in Sacramento, California, to all arrestees who completed the ADAM interview, provided a urine specimen, and agreed to answer additional questions about domestic violence. The addendum was based on the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (Staus and Gelles, 1986) and sought to examine the issue of being the victim and/or perpetrator of domestic violence, age of onset of domestic violence, and injuries from domestic violence. The data also include demographic variables, arrest and charge variables, and alcohol and drug use variables.

Citation

Barnes, Carole, and Taylor, Bruce G. Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence in a Sample of Arrestees in Sacramento, California, 1999. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-06-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04577.v1

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

city

Restrictions

Access to these data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.

Time Period(s)

Date of Collection

Study Purpose

The purpose of this study was to serve as a pilot study for the domestic violence addendum to the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program. The addendum was developed to explore the relationship between substance abuse and intimate violence among ADAM arrestees.

Study Design

The data for this research were collected in conjunction with the National Institute of Justice's Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program. At the time of this study's release, the ADAM program was operational in approximately 35 cities nationwide, providing national and local profiles of drug use within arrestee populations and the monitoring of drug use patterns. An extension and refinement of the previous Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) program (see DRUG USE FORECASTING IN 24 CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES 1987-1997 [ICPSR 9477]), the ADAM program (see ARRESTEE DRUG ABUSE MONITORING (ADAM) PROGRAM IN THE UNITED STATES, 1998 [ICPSR 2826], 1999 [ICPSR 2994], 2000 [ICPSR 3270], 2001 [ICPSR 3688], 2002 [ICPSR 3815], and 2003 [ICPSR 4020]) is the United States government's primary source of information on drug use among arrestees, and is one of the primary research tools on drug use, crime, and other social indicators. Quarterly interviews with arrestees selected using probability based sampling (for males) and convenience sampling (for females) were conducted in jails and detention facilities at each ADAM site. Urine samples were also collected and tested for a core panel of drugs that included cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and opiates. Because the drug screen could not detect drugs beyond 72 hours after use, only arrestees who had been incarcerated 48 hours or fewer were eligible for participation. The ADAM interview provided demographic and descriptive data, including race, age, marital status, source of income, screens for substance abuse and dependency, treatment history, arrest and incarceration experiences, and participation in local drug markets. At the conclusion of the interview, respondents were asked to provide a urine specimen. For the current study, which served as the pilot study for the domestic violence addendum, when the ADAM process was completed, arrestees were asked to answer questions about domestic violence. The domestic violence addendum was administered as part of the ADAM data collection in Sacramento, California, in the third (Part 1) and fourth (Part 2) quarters of 1999. Questions used in the interview were developed using a modified Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (Straus and Gelles, 1986).

Universe

All persons arrested and booked on local and state charges (i.e., not federal and out-of-county charges) in Sacramento, California, during the third and fourth quarters of 1999.

Unit(s) of Observation

arrestee

Data Source

The data were obtained from on-site questionnaires.

Data Type(s)

administrative records data, survey data, and clinical data

Mode of Data Collection

on-site questionnaire

Description of Variables

Part 1 (Third Quarter Data) and Part 2 (Fourth Quarter Data) both include demographic variables taken from the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) data collection. Variables include respondent's age, gender, race, residency, education, employment, and marital status. Other variables include the three most serious arrest charges, heavy alcohol use, use of marijuana, crack/rock cocaine, powder cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and other drugs (ever, previous 30 days, and previous 12 months), age of first use of the above six drugs and heavy alcohol use, and drug dependency in the previous 12 months. Variables from the domestic violence addendum include questions about the types and instances (ever and previous 12 months) of intimate partner physical abuse (e.g., scratching, pushing, throwing, biting, choking, punching, burning, hair-pulling, and threatening with a weapon) and sexual abuse. Respondents were asked if they sustained or caused any injuries such as a black eye, bruises, chipped or knocked out teeth, sprains, broken bones, or cuts.

Response Rates

There were 409 cases eligible for inclusion in the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) study in the third quarter (Part 1). Fifty-seven percent of these 409 cases (n = 232) agreed to do an ADAM interview. Domestic violence addendum interviews were attempted with 197 of the 232 ADAM participants. Domestic violence interviews were completed by 87 percent (n = 171) of these 197 cases. In the fourth quarter (Part 2), 520 cases were eligible for inclusion in the ADAM study. Thirty-five percent of these cases (n = 180) agreed to do an ADAM interview. Domestic violence interviews were completed by 90 percent (n = 162) of these 180 cases in which an ADAM interview was completed.

Presence of Common Scales

Original Release Date

2008-06-30

Version Date

2008-06-30

Version History

2008-06-30 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Standardized missing values.

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